Autographic register



Patented Aug. 14, 1934 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1,970,313 AU'roGaArmo REGISTER Louis Jensen,,,Chicago, 111.,

Autographic Register 00.,

Illinois assignor to United a corporation of bodiment in the accompanying drawing, in

which- Fig. 1 is a broken perspective view of an autographic register embodying the invention; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section taken as indicated at lines 2-2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a broken section similar to Fig. 2, showing the pins in advanced position; and Fig. 4, a broken front elevational view of the machine.

In the embodiment illustrated, A designates a casing provided with a platen A; B, a skeleton cover whose front portion serves as a guide and tear-off member for stationery led over the platen A; and C, an'initial feed-device whichis adapted to advance the stationery, from under the tear-off blade, at the conclusion of a writing operation.

p The casing may be of any suitable construction. A front abutment member 10 is shown attached to the bottom wall 11 by means of a rivet and helps to position the packet of stationery 12, within the machine. The rear of the compartment. is provided with a door 13,

which is pivoted to the casing at 13a and is provided with a guide member 14 which serves to hold the packet 13 in position within the casing and guide the stationery strips 120. to a roller 15, which is journaled in the sidewalls of the machine.

The platen A, forms a top wall for the casing and, preferably, its front portion 16 is curved forwardly and downwardly and provided with register-pin admitting slots 16a.

The skeleton cover B is pivoted to the front portion of the casing bymeans of screws 17 and is provided with a downwardly extending flange 18 which slips over the side walls of the casing and serves to hold the rear-door 13 in closed position. The flange is provided at its rear portion with a finger notch 18a to facilitate raising the cover. The front portion of the cover is of double thickness and sharpened at its front edge to form a tear-off bar 19. Preferably, the lower portion of the tear-off bar-is provided with slots 19a to admit the ends, of the register-pins described below.

The initial feed-device C comprises a rockshaft 20, which is journaled in the side walls of the casing, and has an integrally formed operating handle 21. A spring 22 serves to urge the operating handle to its uppermost position. An additional leaf-spring catch 23 is riveted to the side wall of the register at 23a. and serves to 'yieldingly hold the handle in its uppermost position against a fixed stop 24. A pair of registerpins 25, which project through the slots 160., are telescopically mounted on the arms 26, which in turn are fixed on the rock-shaft 20. The pins-25 are provided with slots 25a which are engaged by pins 2611 on the arms 26, to permit a limited extension of the members, and compression springs 27 urge the register-pins to their extended position. The register-pins 25 may be of circular or oblong cross-section and are provided with flanges 251) which bear against the lower edge portions of the platen 16.

Stationery strips 12a are led from the supply packet 12, around the guide-roll 15 and across the platen to the front of the machine. Carbons or transfer-slips 30 are interleaved between the stationery in the usual manner and, if desired, guard fabrics 31 may be provided to protect the rear edge portion of the carbons from being torn by the advancing stationery.

. After a set of forms have been filled in, the operator rocks the register-pins to their extreme forward position, which is at the ends of the slots 16a. This movement places a slight tension on each of the strips, due to its frictional engagement with the carbons, and the ends of the strips are advanced from under the tear-off bar. As long as the tension remains, the strips will not slip off of the pins even though their end portions are bent sharply from the horizontal writing plane of the platen. However, when the tension is released by slight rearward movement of the pins 25, the strips will spring from the pins and assume the more horizontal position indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 3. When the handle 21 is released the spring 22 will return it'to vertical position. During the return movement the pins will ride against the lower face of the strips and accordingly be depressed until they encounvter the next set of register-perforations in the stationery. It will be understood that after the strips have been initially advanced in this manner, the ends of the strips may be grasped and pulled out by hand until the next set of register-perfo- 11 rations in the stationery are engaged by the pins. The pins serve to hold the stationery while the advanced set of slips are severed by an upward jerk. The pins also serve toihold the paper, while the forms are being filled in, and their forward movement, in initially advancing the stationery,

' sary limitation should be understood therefrom but the appended claims should be construed as broadly as permissible in view of the prior art.

What I regard as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. An autographic register comprising: a platen over which may be drawn continuous-form stationery having register-perforations in the front end-portions of the forms; a bending-form in ad- Vance of said platen; and a rock-shaft journalled belowsaid bending-form, said rock-shaft being equipped with actuating means and carrying yielding register-pins which serve to draw the stationery forward and bend the front margin over said bending-form during the working-stroke and, upon relaxation of the pull, to permit the strips to springi upwardly and free the registerpinfrom engagement 'th the register-perforations. f

2. A register as specified infclaim 1, in which said register-pins are telescopic pins having fixed members projecting from said rock-shaft and spring-urged tips telescoping with the fixed mem-:

bers.

3. A register as specified in claim 1, which said register-pins ai'ne'tlesoopic pins having fixed members projecting; from said rock-shaft and spring-urged tips telescoping with the fixed member, said tip-portions projecting through slots in said bending-form and equipped with collars underlying said bending-form.

4. An autographicregister comprising: a casing equipped with a platen and a recessed curved bending-form in advance of said platen; and a rock-shaft journalled in said casing near the center about which said bending-form is described, said rock-shaft having an actuating-crank and a return spring and carrying register-pins adapted to engage register-perforations in continuousform stationery and draw the stationery forwardly across said platen and bend the front margin about said bending-form in the' workingstroke of the rock-shaft, the rock-shaft being automatically returned and the bent margin of the stationery being permitted to spring free from engagement with the register-pins upon release of said crank.

. LOUIS JENSEN. 

